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Steve Biko married reason with proselytising in ways that made him an excellent organiser. He understood the importance of organising and the need for faith in action.
Rick Turner and Steve Biko both critique the limitations of white liberalism, arguing that it fails to address the root causes of oppression.
The name Africa was given to the continent by European explorers, exploiters, slavers and colonists. It ignores the indigenous people and their accomplishments.
Onyeka Onwenu, Nigerian musician, political activist and documentary maker, died on 30 July 2024.
83.6% of the 367 residents in the survey said that they did not want the historic town’s name to be changed.
To understand this exhibition, you need to move your body through it and dance with Adams’s sculptures, tapestries and cloud installation.
Jan Mashiani and Len Tau apparently found themselves in the US in 1904 as part of a world’s fair displaying ‘savages’.
Released in 1997, Vulindlela reflects the optimism of a democratic South Africa – but Fassie’s ‘bad girl’ image also asks who is really welcome in this new society.
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid South Africa is a new book that explores how apartheid monitored and shaped white life, and how all classes of white people were complicit.
Ravan Press published many black authors who wrote against apartheid, leading to Peter Randall being banned by the state.
The composer, bassist and innovator Gerald ‘Mac’ McKenzie died on 29 April. He changed Cape Town’s unique music traditions forever.
There has been a long history of resistance to white hegemony in the United States and South Africa.
African states won new power when they demanded New Zealand withdraw because of their rugby tour of apartheid South Africa.
Polls suggest the ANC is set to lose its majority in South Africa.
Unions speaking out on issues as contentious as Israel-Palestine is nothing new. They have a long history of staking international positions on everything from apartheid to the Vietnam War.
Former president Jacob Zuma’s MK Party borrows the slogan “mayibuye” from the liberation party to make a point about the ruling African National Congress.
The electoral commission had only four months for work which normally takes two to three years. In the end, the election succeeded because the nation wanted it to succeed.
The South African government has failed to reverse the decline in smallholder farming that began during apartheid. A different approach is needed to support smallholder livelihoods.
Commerce, culture and heritage mix in rather strange and sometimes unsettling ways in South Africa, especially when the struggle for freedom is commemorated.
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor Sport History, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria., University of Pretoria
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer (Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork), NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD), Nelson Mandela University
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
